"What on earth... is Old General Huang Gai actually losing his mind or just playing dumb?"
"No matter if he's losing his mind or playing dumb, he still managed to successfully set fire to Cao Cao's chained warships in the end, pulling off the great feat of the fire attack at Chibi."
"Sigh, Cao Cao really has terrible luck. Just because of a barbecue meal, his army of one hundred thousand and countless ships went completely up in smoke."
"When you get right down to it, we really have General Zhao Yun to thank. Without him delivering the fire out on the water, that great blaze at Chibi never would have ignited."
In the Three Kingdoms Plane,
watching the scene of the fire attack on the chained warships play out on the Celestial Screen, Cao Cao felt a lingering pang of heartache and terror every time he thought of it, even though some time had already passed.
That defeat was the biggest blunder of his entire life! He had grandly led an army of one hundred thousand and numerous warships on a majestic expedition toward Jiangdong to conquer the realm, only to be routed by a fierce fire that sent him fleeing in panic, repeatedly ambushed by Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun along the way. In the end, if Second Brother Guan hadn't remembered past ties and spared his life, he, Cao Mengde, probably would have met his end right there in that campaign.
Sigh, after a defeat like that, when would he, Cao Mengde, ever manage to unify the realm? Looking at the steadily growing Sun Wu of Jiangdong and …
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